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Preface: It's 2 in the morning and LordoftheCurry and I are having another late-night discussion. Tonight, we're discussing "The Street", an hour-long drama for UPN that is a modern spin on Romeo and Julliet. It's a common thing we do, making up often-ridiculous "scripts"/plots for a TV show or Movie which tends to involve Edward James Almos as a Mexican Drug Lord. So, rather than keeping these BRILLIANT stories to ourselves, we figured we should put it somewhere more permanent and for other people like us -with disturbing imaginations and a penchant for creating fictional worlds - to join in and put their thoughts to pape-err I mean cyberspace... This is mainly for Curry and my amusement, but we encourage anyone interested to join in.

 

You can start your own or add-on to an existing piece. The sky is the limits in terms of topic matter; it could be a spin-off from a TV show, a blending of genres and stories, or just an original piece...

 

And now..

 

"THE STREET"

 

Starring:

 

Reginald Vel Johnson as Tyron Jenkins - the owner of an inner city youth centre and drug dealer. He justifies his seedy business by giving money to the community. His wife, Winnifred Jenkins, died while giving birth to Remmy.

 

Edwards James Olmos as Diablos Del Santos, aka Miguel Santos - Mexican Drug Lord who is looking to move in on Jenkins' territory, and will step over anyone who gets in his way. His wife, Rosa, has AIDS from a dirty needle which was sent from Vel Johnson and meant for Diablos.

 

(Uncast) Remmy Jenkins - youngest child of the Jenkins family, he grew up shielded from the world by his father and older brothers and lived the majority of his life with his aunt in New York. He is back home in California and going to college, studying English and Shakespeare, of all things.

 

(uncast) Julia Santos - daughter of Diablo Santos, a free-spirit who wants nothing to do with the family business. She wants to be an actress and despite her fathers connections in Hollywood, she wants to make it on her own. She is taking acting classes in the same school as Remmy.

 

Alfonso Ribera as Robert Jenkins - the eldest brother who wants to take over the family business. He thinks his father is too defensive and shouldn't let Santos come into the territory. Infact, he thinks that THEY should invade the Mexican turf and expand their market.

 

Michelle Rodriguez as Lola - the tough but sexy mistress of Santos who does the dirty work for her man - selling her body to business partners and allies to make sure shit runs smoothly... sometimes the sex turns into death if the objective is revenge.

 

Morris Chestnut as The Dark Prince - his real name is Arthur Peterson, but if you call him that he'll pump you full of lead. The Dark Prince is Tyrons second and looks after the drug side of the business full time. He and Lola are secretely seeing each other and conspiring to drive both families out of business.

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Pilot:

 

"Dead End"

 

Synopsis: In the first episode of this spin on Romeo and Julliet, Remmy and Julia find themselves alone in the morgue, while their respective familes are preparing for full-out war. The show mainly focuses on the families and their reaction to Julias death, but begins with Remmy entering the morgue and ends with Julia stabbing herself (with their "end" spread throughout the show).

 

The rest of the season details how they got there, and how their love blossomed.

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Some add-ons.......

 

Tiny Lister as Grave Filler, Tyron's bodyguard-for-hire. Grave and Tryon have a history, as when they both were childhood friends they made a pact to each other that if either of them got rich they would help the other out. Tyron made good on his promise when he blackmailed a local client who just happened to be the District Attorney and ended up springing Grave from jail. Because of this, Grave is fiercely loyal to Tyron.

 

Danny Trejo as El Caducar Demonio aka "The Fallen Demon." Demonio represents the last line of defense for Diablo in his war against Tyron James and his crew. After Diablos wife was given AIDS by the dirty syringe sent by Tyron, Diablo placed a call to a friend in the Mexican Army and soon enough after Demonio showed up.

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Cold Opening:

 

*Dressed in a dark blue suit, a young black man (remmy) enters a hospital, running through the halls -in slow motion- with a desperate look on his eyes. Just the sound of his breathing is heard*

 

*A doctor gets in his way, mouthing "you can't go in there" to him. He pushes the doctor away and enters the unidentified room... it's the morgue, with a female body covered in a sheet*

 

*His hand reaches out and pulls back the cloth to reveal a young, hispanic woman in her early 20's/late-teens lying there*

 

*the man breaks down in tears*

 

Intro:

 

The opening music is "Killing me Softly" by the Fugees and is spliced together by clips from the show and ultimately ending with both Remmy and Julia dead together:

 

I heard he sang a good song, I heard he had a style,

And so I came to see him and listen for a while.

And there he was this young boy, stranger to my eyes,

Strumming my pain with his fingers,

Singing my life with his words,

Killing me softly with this song,

killing me softly with this song,

Telling my whole life with his words,

Killing me softly with his song.

I felt all flushed with fever,

Embarrassed by the crowd,

I felt he found my letters and read each one out loud.

I prayed that he would finish,

But he just kept right on

strumming my pain with his fingers, (One Time!)

Singing my life with his words, (Two Time!)

Killing me softly with his song,

Killing me softly with his song,

Telling my whole life with his words,

Killing me softly with his song

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Oh man, you can SO turn The Dark Prince into a MacBeth-type character. Of course, then you need witches to deliver the prophecy, that needs to be worked out. Just imagine him going into a gunfight going: "I can not be killed by a man of woman birth!". Lola then ofcourse needs to be Lady MacBeth.

 

Or you could sort of crossbreed what I just described with Yojimbo/Man With no Name, that should be interesting.

 

Man, this character has infinite possibilities...

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Oh MAN, Remmys mother could have died BEFORE giving birth to him so the doctors had to "cut him out", so to speak, and he could be the one who kills The Dark Prince. Though, I think LOTC wants El Caducar Demonio to off him... that could still work.

 

Here's what I'm thinkin for the episodes (as talked about with Curry last night over MSN):

 

Episode 1 changes up and starts off for the Cold Opening with the entire scene of Remmy and Julia's death. The rest of the episode is from the POV of the two fathers as they grieve for their children. The end of the episode has a "One year earlier" tag and features Remmy looking across a crowded dance hall and seeing Julia.

 

Episode 2 starts off with Remmy coming home after living in NY. He doesn't know his father is a drug dealer and wonders how he gets all the money to make his appartment (which is a combination of 4 apartment spaces) look so nice (Tyron would be the owner of the building as well and where he does a lot of his business out of). Tyron has Robert take Remmy around and get him "familiar" with stuff. Remmy also starts to go to school and goes to the Orientation Dance. The first half of the episode is dedicated to him and his final scene has him looking across the room at something (which we all know is Julia). The second half shows Julia yelling at her father, praying for her mother, breaking up with her old boyfriend, etc. etc. etc. There's a lot of drama going on for her and she needs to relax... she goes to the dance. The finale scene is her looking back at him.

 

Episode 3 has him courting her and whatnot. Both of them find out who each-other-is at the end of the episode, but it doesn't matter to either of them.

 

Episode _ has Remmy and Julia talking at the Santos estate. Diablos overhears him talking about his mother and how she died during labor. This gives him a sense of grief; You see, when he was an underling for the gang leader in the 70's, Diablos was sent to poison the epidural needle of one Winnifred Jenkins, and it was always something that haunted him. He tells his feelings to Lola and then Lola tells them to The Dark Prince. The Dark Prince tells Tyron in hopes of enraging him into war with Diablos so both groups can kill each other off, but Tyron -who gets close to going to war- decides that too much blood has been shed over the territory and that it must end.

 

Lola tells The Dark Prince that Tyron has become way too soft and that he (TDP) needs to take over. This begins The Dark Prince's season-long quest to get ontop the drug game. Lola, in the meantime, tells Diablos that Tyron was responsible for Rosa getting AIDS. The episode ends with Santos holding his dying wifes hand and then looking out the window with contempt when he sees Remmy drive in to pick up Julia.

 

Futher Developments:

 

- The Dark Prince tries to bring Grave Filler over to his side and betray Tyron, but Grave Fillers loyalty runs deep and says to TDP that he's going to tell Tyron about his motives. TDP has to kill Grave Filler and plants a gun to make it look like Demonio did it. This enrages Tyron who is on the verge of going to war with Diablos. This is a Season 2 development, which takes place after the death of Remmy and Julia, but could work for Season 1... though Romeo & Juliet for S1 and MacBeth for S2 seems like the right idea.

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Romeo & Juliet for Season 1 and MacBeth for Season 2 sounds like a good idea. I had yet another idea for Shakespeare crossbreeding, namely mixing MacBeth with Othello. What you could do there is to introduce a lieutenant to The Dark Prince who sows seeds of distrust between The Dark Prince and Lola, which would then help to leed to The Dark Prince's downfall.

 

And yeah, Demonio would be the perfect guy to finally kill The Dark Prince.

 

Another idea I had was that the show should have a chorus, like in the ancient Greek tragedies. I was thinking they should be blind street preachers like the one in They Live. This also sets up a potential prophet for The Dark Prince.

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I think that Season One should end off with the death of TDP at the hands of Demonio. I was trying to think of a good way to connect the death of Grave Filler and the subsequent showdown between TDP and Demonio.

 

Season Finale: " Demonio Noche" (Demon Night)

 

The episode mainly revolves around Lola and TDP and whether or not TDP is going to make his move and try to take out Tyron. He realizes that there is no hope in doing so unless he can first convince Grave Filler to get on his side. Him and GF have a conversation in which TDP tiptoes around the issue of taking out Diablo once and for all and taking over his territory. GF considers it but then says that Tyron makes the decisons and that nothing will be done without his orders. It becomes clear to TDP that Grave Filler needs to be taken out of the picture if he is to become the Capo of the James Family Business.

 

Lola and TDP meet to dicuss the strong possbility that they'll have to take out Grave Filler. Lola then comes up with the perfect idea. They will kill Grave Filler and frame El Caducar Demonio. The Dark Prince then gets an even better idea. Later that night Remmy and Julia will be going on a date and they will be trailed (in secret) by Lola and Grave Filler, respectively. TDP suggests that they kill Remmy AND Grave Filler, a move that would surely push Tyron over the edge. Lola agrees. The secret motive behind this is that all throughout the season The Dark Prince would be planting seeds in Roberts head, convincing him that Tyron likes Remmy and best and so forth. With Remmy out of the picture Robert would be easy pickings for The Dark Prince and his suggestive ways.

 

I don't know how the actual killing scene goes down or what happens but that's what I've got so far.

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I don't know if I could see Carl Winslow as a drug dealer. I think Charles S. Dutton would be a better choice.

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NO!

 

It must be Carl!

 

Nobody else will do. Didn't you see him getting all angry and dramatic in Die Hard? He can work that character well enough. Dutton would be a good character to bring in, though. Maybe somebody from Tyrons past.

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While I'm continuing to work on a MacBeth-storyline for TDP, I also thought of the following:

 

Perhaps Dutton can be brought in as a childhood friend of Tyron who ended up on the other side of the law (a bit cliched perhaps, but bear with me)? He could then (continuing with the cliches) be forced to team up with a renegade cop who carries a grudge against Diablos (preferably played by someone like Jan-Michael Vincent). One could then also bring in a crooked captain secretly working against them (played by Richard Dean Anderson).

 

I don't know if that's any good, but the MacBeth storyline's got my imagination going.

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Your idea includes muthafuckin Richard Dean Anderson so I'm cool with it.

 

A nonpartisan third party would work really well. The feds would always be trying to infiltrate both crews, seeing who will cut a deal, give info etc...

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

How about the Russians? They're a good all-purpose wild card in these matters.

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Then you could bring in Dolph Lundgren as the top Russian hitman.

 

I am also thinking that Dirk Benedict needs to appear as a sleazy druglord that either side is trying to work out a huge deal with, or as the top defense attorney for either family.

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The finale should build to the gang war but stop when Remmy and Julia die - which brings the show full circle and in-line with the first episode. The Season 2 premiere is when all the gang stuff "blows up" and sets in motion the MacBeth-esque storyline of The Dark Prince killing Tyron and claiming the top spot with Lola in his ear. Who would be the hero though? Remmy and Julia were the heros of the first season, the second season could be... ?

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Get the Asians in there for some fight scenes. Russell Wong from Rome Must Die would make a good Asian kingpin.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Asian chicks. Femme Fatale Yakuza bitches. 7 or 8 of 'em.

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The Russians are SOOOOO late Season 2 material which puts pressure on the newly renamed "The Dark King" and builds his frustration.

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You know, we should keep this going, not only with your show, but with everyone's ideas. I'm also thinking of a thread containing shows that TSMers could star in. More Hardcore Discussion randomness.

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I don't know about the hero. One could always introduce a rebellious underling who decides to break off from The Dark Prince, or use the Jan-Michael Vincent renegade cop character I introduced above, or perhaps an undercover fed who gets in really close to The Dark Prince, ala Donnie Brasco.

 

As for the MacBeth storyline, I really think the Othello element should be introduced leading to The Dark Prince killing Lola in a fit of jealous rage towards the end of the season, leading on towards his downfall. Perhaps, to steal some stuff from Scarface, The Dark Prince's best friend could fall in love with Lola, leading to The Dark Prince killing him as well?

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I think the rooskies should've been wronged at some point by one of the gangs, which would give them some sympathy from the crowd, even if they're shiftless scumbags and killers. Revenge is very chic right now.

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If the Yakuza is brought in, Sho Kosugi needs to be involved somehow.

 

And, to continue stealing from Scarface, the season finale could be the Russians storming The Dark King's villa.

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I figure the Asian Femme Fatales would be introduced in Season 2, but become more prominent in Season 3 - which theme has yet to be named. Hamlet? Does Diablos remarry and then get killed by his brother who claims the family fortune and Diablos' widow? Then, does Diablos' excommunicated son return from serving in the Mexican Military to find all this drama bestowed upon him and then goes mad?

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

And, to continue stealing from Scarface, the season finale could be the Russians storming The Dark King's villa

 

...only to meet the Yakuza Bitch Force-7, who have already collected their bounty.

 

Season three opens with an insane battle.

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I was thinking of ending Season 3 with an invasion by an army of Yakuza femme fatales, but yeah, that would rock as well. That could perhaps lead into an interesting Titus Andronicus variation.

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You know, we should keep this going, not only with your show, but with everyone's ideas. I'm also thinking of a thread containing shows that TSMers could star in. More Hardcore Discussion randomness.

That's a good idea Zack but if you're gonna do it, do it in a seperate thread. Things are already getting confusing in here as it is.

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You know, we should keep this going, not only with your show, but with everyone's ideas.  I'm also thinking of a thread containing shows that TSMers could star in.  More Hardcore Discussion randomness.

That's a good idea Zack but if you're gonna do it, do it in a seperate thread. Things are already getting confusing in here as it is.

Already on it, dude.

 

Oh, and Sho Kosugi=teh rule.

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Then there's a car chase.

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It would be kind of interesting to go for a totally off-kilter Shakespeare crossbreeding in later seasons. Twelfth Night meets Richard III? The sky's the limit.

 

Oh, and I've got a great idea for season 3 or 4. How about the Tempest? Let's say Diablos is exiled from his former turf and go from there...

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Just to keep things in somewhat order, let's go over our (potential) cast so far

 

The James Centre Crew aka J2C

 

Reginald Veljohnson as Tyron James

? as Remmy James

Alfonso Ribera as Robert James

Morris Chestnut as The Dark Prince

Tiny Lister as Grave Filler

Alfre Woodward as Winnifred Jenkins (I casted that one on the fly)

 

The Devil's Army

 

Edward James Olmos as Diablo Santos

? as Julia Santos

Michelle Rodriguez as Lola

? as Rosa Santos

Danny Trejo as El Caducar Demonio

 

Alternate Casting

 

Russian Mafia

Asian Mafia

FBI/Cops

 

I think right now it's best to not get too ahead of ourselves and concentrate on Season 1 and the James vs Diablo feud.